If this exit polling is and remains correct after the final vote counting, my electoral vote breakdown count among the general Catholic population in these states is so:
Obama with Catholics: 91 ev
Romney with Catholics: 160 ev
Arizona with Catholics:— a wash (11 ev)
The only thing I can think of is that Cali is affecting the total national % of Catholics, becuase of the huge population and huge % of latin Catholics. I would hazard you can also see this can see this in NM, it was the highest % of Catholics voting for O. according to this at 64%, down from 70% in 2008. And this list doesn’t have La, which went 70% for McCain amongst Catholics in 2008. I would be very interested in Texas, which also has a huge pop., has a high % of latin Catholics, but votes red like a trooper.
If this is legit, then the story of Obama winning the Catholic vote by 50% is probably worthless in regard to how Obama won the electoral college. Not that the 50% number isn’t a great scandal, but if this stuff is real then it gives the complete wrong impression concerning the actual re-election of pres. O. If this is true, then all the ‘Obama wins Catholics by 50%’ stories are also a great scandal, as they lacked information of how Catholics voted by state—which is how we vote.
Freegards
I live in a very hispanic parish right now, having been asked by my diocese to move to where I could be of better service. The parish I was with previously has finally gotten adequate staffing, and so they asked me to move.
We can’t give up on the prolife Catholic latino churchgoers. They need to see a candidate that represents them.